That night we danced, I marked you as mine and I made it stick. There wasn’t a boy or a man on that lake that didn’t know who you belonged to, and the minute there was even a whiff one of them was stepping over the line, they walked funny for a week.
Being fat is the absolute nadir of the misfit. You're a misfit because nothing fits. You don't fit in. You're not fit. You're fat. Fat doesn't have the poetic cachet of alcohol, the whiff of danger in the drug of choice. You're just fat. Being fat is so un-American, so unattractive, unerotic, unfashionable, undisciplined, unthinkable, uncool. It makes you invisible. It makes you conspicuous.
The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot
i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.
If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.
Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.
I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.
Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
Mr Hughes's current claim of "bisexuality" has the whiff of artful centrist positioning about it: bi- is the proportional representation of sexuality in a world where most of us - straight or gay - operate a first-past-the-post system.
Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face.
